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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1939. ==Events== *Early - The Pocket Books mass-market paperback imprint is launched in the United States; the first of the nationally distributed titles is James Hilton's ''Lost Horizon''. *January * *American literary magazine ''The Kenyon Review'', founded and edited by John Crowe Ransom, is first published. * *American pulp science fiction magazine ''Startling Stories'', edited by Mort Weisinger, is first published. It includes ''The Black Flame'' by Stanley G. Weinbaum as lead novel. * *British literary quarterly ''The Criterion'', founded and edited by T. S. Eliot, is published for the last time. * *W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood set sail from England for the United States. *January/February - ''Poetry London: a Bi-Monthly of Modern Verse and Criticism'', founded and edited by Tambimuttu (with Dylan Thomas and others), is first published. *February 6 - Raymond Chandler's hardboiled California private detective Philip Marlowe is introduced in his first full-length work of crime fiction, ''The Big Sleep'' (reworking elements from earlier short stories), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the United States. *March - Isaac Asimov's first published short story, "Marooned Off Vesta", appears in ''Astounding Science-Fiction'' magazine. *March 4 - BBC Television broadcasts one of the first television plays specially written for the medium, ''Condemned To Be Shot'' by R. E. J. (Reginald?) Brooke, live from its London studios at Alexandra Palace. The production is also notable for the use of a camera as the first-person perspective of the play's unseen central character. *March 31 - Release of the 20th Century Fox film version of ''The Hound of the Baskervilles'', first of a Sherlock Holmes film series starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. *April 13 - Release of the United Artists film version of ''Wuthering Heights'', starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. *May - Jorge Luis Borges' first short story in his later characteristic style, "Pierre Menard, autor del ''Quijote''", is published in the Buenos Aires literary magazine ''Sur''. *May 4 - James Joyce's last work, ''Finnegans Wake'', is published complete by Faber and Faber in London. *May 15 - Russian writer Isaac Babel is arrested by the NKVD at his dacha as part of the Great Purge in the Soviet Union and incarcerated in the Lubyanka Building in Moscow. *August - Robert A. Heinlein's first published short story, "Life-Line", appears in ''Astounding Science-Fiction''. *c. August - Ernest Vincent Wright publishes his lipogrammatic novel ''Gadsby'', "a story of over 50,000 words without using the letter "E"", in Los Angeles a few months before his death on October 7. *September 2 - Jean-Paul Sartre is conscripted into the French Army where he will serve as a meteorologist. *September 18 - Polish painter, playwright and novelist Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (b. 1885) commits suicide following the Soviet invasion of Poland. *September/October - American reprint science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine ''Famous Fantastic Mysteries'' begins publication in New York. *Fall - Frank Herbert lies about his age to get his first job as a local newspaper reporter. *November - The teenage Brendan Behan is arrested in Liverpool for possession of explosives. *November 8 - Lindsay and Crouse's stage adaptation of Clarence Day's ''Life with Father'' opens at the Empire Theatre (42nd Street) in New York. Running until 12 July 1947, it becomes the all-time longest-running non-musical play in Broadway theatre. *Late - Captain Marvel makes his first appearance, in ''Whiz Comics'' #2 (cover date February 1940). thumb 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1939 in literature」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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